Trump hints at 'action' if Hamas doesn't return hostage bodies

President Donald Trump clarified that U.S. troops would not be going into Gaza after he posted on social media earlier Thursday that Hamas should stop killing people in Gaza or else "we will have no choice but to go in and kill them."

"I didn’t say who would go in but somebody will go in. It's not going to be us. We won't have to," Trump told reporters. "There are people very close, very nearby, that will go in, they'll do the trick very easily. But under our auspices."

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa

The State Department said it deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team last week "to help surge and coordinate aid into Gaza.”

The team moved into position ahead of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. A majority of the team is based in Jerusalem while other members of the team are based in different parts of the Middle East, a Trump administration official told ABC News.

-ABC News’ Mariam Khan

Thirty bodies were returned to Gaza on Thursday, transferred from Israeli authorities to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Gaza Ministry of Health.

In total, 120 bodies have been transferred from Israeli authorities back to Gaza through the Red Cross since the first phase of the ceasefire deal went into effect.

The Israel Defense Forces said it struck “Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure” in southern Lebanon on Thursday.

“This infrastructure enabled Hezbollah's continuous activity and the reestablishment of its terrorist activity under civilian disguise in Lebanon,” the IDF said in a statement.